India says military stations were attacked by Pakistani drones and missilesTopic:Unrest, Conflict and War38m ago38 minutes agoThu 8 May 2025 at 10:00pmPakistan claims to have shot down 29 drones from India at locations across Pakistan. (AP: Fareed Khan)In short:India says it neutralised Pakistani missile and drone strikes on military stations around the Kashmir region late on Thursday.Pakistan earlier reported to have downed Indian drones targeting air defence radars and systems at a number of locations in Pakistan What's next?World powers from the US to Russia and China are calling for calm in one of the world's most dangerous and populated nuclear flashpoint regions. abc.net.au/news/india-says-military-stations-attacked-pakistan-drones-missiles/105271862Link copiedShareShare articleBlasts have rung out across the Indian city of Jammu during what the government said was a Pakistani drone and missile attack on military stations around the Kashmir region on the second day of clashes between the nuclear-armed neighbours.Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif earlier vowed to avenge the deaths caused by India's missile strikes on Wednesday, raising fears the two countries could be headed toward another all-out conflict.Leaders from both nations face mounting public pressure to show strength and seek revenge, and the heated rhetoric and competing claims could be a response to that pressure.Kashmir conflict leaves South Asians in Australia fearing for familiesPhoto shows A man with his grandmother dressed in white. The latest escalation in violence between India and Pakistan has left members of the countries' diasporas in Australia fearing for their families trapped in the conflict zone.Sirens sounded and red flashes and projectiles erupted in the night sky above Jammu for about two-and-a-half hours late on Thursday, a Reuters journalist said, in what appeared to be an escalation in the countries' worst confrontation in more than two decades.Two days of fighting have killed nearly four dozen people."Military stations at Jammu, Pathankot & Udhampur were targeted by Pakistani-origin drones and missiles along the international border in J&K today," India's Ministry of Defence said on X, citing places in and near the federal territory of Jammu and Kashmir."The threats were swiftly neutralised … No casualties or material losses were reported."Indian TV channels also showed flares and flashes in the sky above Jaisalmer city in Rajasthan state, which shares a border with the southern Pakistani province of Sindh.In a statement, Islamabad denied attacking Pathankot in India's Punjab state, Srinagar in the Kashmir Valley and Jaisalmer and said the accusations were "entirely unfounded, politically motivated, and part of a reckless propaganda campaign aimed at maligning Pakistan".Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the country would respond to any escalation "with full resolve and determination to safeguard Pakistan's sovereignty and territorial integrity".Electricity in Jammu was slowly being restored after a blackout during the attack, a Reuters journalist said.Eight missiles, fired from Pakistan at the Jammu region towns of Satwari, Samba, Ranbir Singh Pura and Arnia, were intercepted by air defence units, added an Indian military source who asked not to be named.They were part of a wider attack, the source added.A resident of Poonch, in Indian-controlled Kashmir along the Line of Control, inspects his house damaged by Pakistani artillery shelling. (AP: Channi Anand)Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif earlier said further retaliation was "increasingly certain" after both countries accused each other of launching drone attacks.World powers from the US to Russia and China have called for calm in one of the world's most dangerous and populated nuclear flashpoint regions. The US consulate-general in Pakistan's Lahore ordered staff to shelter in place.US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called for de-escalation in separate calls with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday, the State Department said.The relationship between India and Pakistan has been fraught with tension since they gained independence from colonial Britain in 1947. The countries have fought three wars, two of them over Kashmir, and clashed many times.The neighbours, which both claim Kashmir in full and rule over parts of it, separately acquired nuclear weapons in the 1990s.Rallies have been held in Pakistan to condemn India's missile strikes. (AP: Fareed Khan)Drones, missiles, air defencesIndia said it hit nine "terrorist infrastructure" sites in Pakistan on Wednesday in retaliation for what it says was a deadly Islamabad-backed attack in Indian Kashmir on April 22.Pakistan says it was not involved in the terrorist attack, denied that any of the sites hit by India were militant bases and said 31 civilians were killed.It said it shot down five Indian aircraft on Wednesday, a report the Indian embassy in Beijing dismissed as "misinformation".Pakistan's military said earlier on Thursday it shot down 29 drones from India at multiple locations including the two largest cities of Karachi and Lahore and the garrison city of Rawalpindi, home to the army's headquarters.Pakistan says it has shot down 25 Indian attack dronesPhoto shows A big hole is seen on a rooftop of a house suspected to have been damaged in Indian drone attackIndia says it "neutralised" Pakistan's attempts to strike military targets with drones and missiles, as fighting spreads between the nuclear-armed neighbours. Two civilians were killed and another wounded when debris from a downed drone fell in Sindh province.One drone damaged a military site near the city of Lahore and wounded four soldiers, and another fell in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, near the capital, according to Mr Sharif."The armed forces are neutralising them as we speak," he told state-run Pakistan Television.The Indian defence ministry said Pakistan attempted to engage a number of military targets in northern and western India from Wednesday night into Thursday morning and they were "neutralised" by Indian air defence systems.In response, Indian forces targeted air defence radars and systems at a number of locations in Pakistan on Thursday, the ministry said.Both sides have also traded heavy fire across their frontier in disputed Kashmir, and Pakistan claimed it killed scores of Indian soldiers. 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